The Best Investment in Healthcare Lighting

Research-Verified Virtual Skylights

Healthcare lighting has a profound effect on the health and recovery process of patients. While natural daylight offers the best therapeutic benefits, in metropolitan hospitals where inward-facing planning is an unavoidable part of building design, a wide array of ambient, task, and accent artificial lighting is required.

These three major lighting functions are limited to illuminating the interior envelope.

Unlike natural daylight, which conveys environmental depth by virtue of its natural medium—the sky—only a content-based architectural luminaire, can restore light's organic connection to open space by channeling its healing spatial attributes.

Beyond Photographic Nature Art

The standard use of nature art in healthcare lighting relies on backlit panels featuring an assortment of outdoor scenes. These commercial images are used in a wide array of promotional media, ranging from printed literature and artwork to marketing banners and POS displays. Unfortunately, multi-purpose nature art imagery is not captured with the compositional cues necessary to establish environmental context.

Sky Factory's approach to healthcare lighting is unique. Rather than employ commercial photography, which relies on techniques that distort the field of view with a wide angle lens or other visual artifacts, our team of artists capture and frame our photographic compositions with the single minded intent of designing a powerful simulation of open sky and undisturbed nature.

The result is an impressive luminescence that allow modular compositions to achieve a three-dimensional effect on a two-dimensional plane ranging from standard drop ceilings to any finished ceiling treatment. Furthermore, when these image panels are combined with architectural reveals to enhance perspective, the installation appears to recede, forming part of a natural exterior that surrounds the interior envelope.

This creates an illusory effect that triggers a deeper "Relaxation Response" in the casual observer that taps our innate Biophilia—our our hard-wired love of nature—and through it, enliven its most universal experience: a visual connection to open sky.

The Most Therapeutic Modular Ceiling System

Sky Factory's illusions of nature are a unique, fourth type of healthcare lighting that not only provide a therapeutic portal to open skies, but also use one of two LED lighting systems (edge-lit or backlit) to invigorate our circadian rhythm in isolated interiors.

**Sky Factory's healthcare lighting is the only product of its kind with published, peer-reviewed studies on the positive clinical outcomes of its products on patients.

Experience Sky Factory First-Hand

You can experience this type of healthcare lighting by requesting a visit from our mobile gallery showroom, the Sky Mobile. See our schedule.

Sky Factory also showcases its suite of products at the largest and most established radiology, healthcare, and specialized trade shows in the U.S. and around the world.

Custom-Tailored to your Workspace

Our family of Luminous SkyCeilings and Luminous Virtual Windows, in addition to our Digital Cinema line are designed to enhance the patient experience in every area of a hospital, clinic, or care-giving facility.

Because of our installations' superior realism and exquisite composition, as well as their unmatched luminescence and quality craftsmanship, Sky Factory Luminous SkyCeilings and Luminous Virtual Windows transform the look and feel of isolated interior spaces with effective illusions of sky and nature.

In Their Own Words, Customer Quotes

Our Luminous SkyCeiling helps provide a very calming atmosphere in our Preoperative Area. It is very much like having a real skylight in the room. -CH, RN

It's amazing what you see in those images, it really takes your mind off the procedure. -MF, Cancer Patient

The Sky Factory SkyCeilings help patients relax. When patients are relaxed, they experience less pain and recover faster. Therefore they leave the facility sooner, which decreases our personnel cost as well as the cost of supplies that we use to keep them comfortable -NJ, Surgical Services Manager

Patients immediately respond to the Luminous SkyCeiling. It gives us something to converse about, and it helps the patients feel relaxed. It has changed the whole ambiance of the room. -CH, RN

Our patients respond positively to the Sky Factory SkyCeiling. They love its light and the image of a sunny day, especially when it is stormy and dreary outside. The view is soothing and takes their mind off the exam, reduces stress, and sets them at ease. When patients are less stressed, they have a more positive experience. -EZ, CT Supervisor